Harley Jane Kozak biography

Harley Jane Kozak

Harley Jane Kozak Biography

Harley Jane Kozak was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in North Dakota and Nebraska, where her mother taught music at the University in Lincoln. She had acted in more than 30 plays when she went to New York City to attend NYU's School of the Arts (now Tisch School of the Arts). After completing the program, she was cast in the feature film The House on Sorority Row. She later had principle roles in three soap operasTexas, Guiding Light and Santa Barbaraand had made her way to Los Angeles, where she went on to star in feature films and prime time television programs. Ten years later she began to write novels.

Her works include Dating Dead Men (2004), Dating Is Murder: A Novel (2005), A Date You Can't Refuse (2009), Keeper of the Moon (2013).

Kozak currently lives with her family in Southern California, where she's working on an international thriller. Meanwhile, she's added teaching, blogging and public speaking to her resumi.

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Interview

An Interview with Harley Jane Koxak

In what ways is Wollie like you?
Wollie's a greeting card designer, and I've been a perpetual doodler my
whole life, an amateur, completely uneducated graphic artist . . . For the last
20 years, I've made my own Christmas cards, shlepped them to the printer, sent
out 500 to my nearest and dearest--a mildly idiosyncratic obsession that Wollie
would understand. Neither Wollie nor I has much physical courage (although I'm
in better shape and run more than she does, and I am, I might add, much less
well-endowed. Also shorter and less blonde.) And we're both indoor people. Who
would be happier in a world where we never had to drive a car.

After a successful acting career, what drew you to writing?
In my teens and twenties I was an avid letter-writer and
diary-keeper, and then, upon graduating from NYU's graduate acting program, had
an almost overpowering urge to have a baby and write a play. I postponed the
baby, wrote the play, workshopped it a bit, put it away, tried to write a
screenplay, a novel, a musical, put them away, and then, 15 years later, took a
short story class from a genius who teaches at Santa Monica College, Jim Krusoe.
I lived for his ...

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